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YORK — Richard Shomette wanted to have a new life with his biological mother in Scotland. He was saving up money to see her again, but his plans were tragically cut short Wednesday when he was hit and killed by a car. "It was unreal," his grandmother Judy Lynn Dunn said Friday about hearing Shomette was dead. "You have somebody that is healthy and vibrant and they're energetic. They're full of life and now they're not here. It just doesn't make sense in your mind." Shomette was helping a woman in a disabled vehicle on the Bland Boulevard overpass in Newport News when another car hit him, according to police. Shomette, 22, was taken to a...

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